After winning two clickfraud lawsuits, a legal firm decides why not try two more? A look at Kevin Johnson, chief of Microsoft's search efforts. Those Belgian papers still want money from Google News. Plus more!
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- Google's CEO
Talks Up Mobile Ad Opportunity, Skyfire Browser Pushes For "The Real
Internet" On Mobile Devices
Google very clearly recognizes how strategic the mobile internet is both for revenue growth and the company's future. Hence the Android mobile platform, the bidding in the 700MHz auction and all the effort Google is directing toward mobile generally. CEO Eric Schmidt repeatedly emphasizes mobile as the next big frontier... - Serial
Clickfraud Lawsuit Firm Strikes Again, This Time At Citysearch
Click fraud lawsuit targets IAC's Citysearch from News.com reports the law firm of Kabateck Brown Kellner is targeting IAC's Citysearch.com for allegedly "defrauding its advertising customers of millions of dollars" by "turning a blind eye to click fraud" and actually "encouraging" the click fraud. This Los Angeles-based law firm has... - Microsoft
Joins The Social Bookmarking Game
Microsoft's John Martin has shared a preview of the new Microsoft social bookmarking tool that will be demonstrated at the TechEd North America event in the upcoming week. John provided a shortlist of features and two screen captures of the social bookmarking tool at his blog post. Based on the... - Microsoft's
Kevin Johnson Profiled By Fortune As "The Man Who Would Run Yahoo"
Microsoft's Kevin Johnson is perhaps the main strategist in the company's battle for online advertising dollars and in some sense driving the future of Microsoft as an entity. Fortune magazine interviews and profiles Johnson. Johnson runs the group that controls the Windows OS and online services, including Live Search.... - Some Kind Of Yahoo Deal Getting Closer; Microsoft Still Wants The Whole Thing, paidContent.org
- Marcial: Yahoo's Endgame, BusinessWeek
- Google Asked
To Pay $77 Million To Belgian Newspapers For Copyright Violations
Yesterday we were reminded of Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against Google for copyright infringement. That case of course has yet to be determined. However, in Europe, a group of French-language Belgian newspapers previously won a copyright case against Google and are now moving to collect $77 million (€49m) in damages.... - Yahoo Search
May 2008 Index Update
The Yahoo Search blog posted a new weather report today. The report tells us to expect some fluctuations in the search results found at Yahoo Search. Priyank Garg & Sharad Verma of Yahoo said, that they are releasing "some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next... - Survey finds that MBA students want to work at Google, CNN Money
- The Press Association: Google named best place to work, Google
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